5/22/2023 0 Comments The battle of midway craig symonds![]() ![]() Redman, director of OP-20-G, the Navy’s Code and Signals Section. Officially, Rochefort reported to Captain John R. “Rochefort’s job was to gather information, raw data for the most part, and send to Washington,” says Craig Symonds, professor of maritime history at the Naval War College and author of The Battle of Midway. Back in March, a Japanese plane reporting weather conditions near the islands had also mentioned “AF,” suggesting strongly that the designator referred to Midway.īut not everyone was convinced the codebreakers were right. naval and air base on Midway Atoll, two tiny islands located in the central Pacific, around 1,200 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor. ![]() Station Hypo had little doubt as to what “AF” referred to: the U.S. The radio traffic they intercepted that May suggested that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack, was preparing a major invasion, involving four Japanese aircraft carriers along with many other ships, at a location designated with the initials “AF.” ![]() Navy's cryptologic and intelligence developments from 1925 to 1947. Captain Joseph John Rochefort was a major figure in the U.S. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments The Promise by Robert Crais![]() For his part, Cole believes the terrorist is responsible for the woman’s disappearance. Almost immediately he comes under suspicion as the police search for a terrorist with possible gang connections. ![]() Things are not always as they seem and that will turn out to be the case in this instance, but for most of the book Crais allows us, and Elvis Cole, to hold fast to our mistaken impressions.Hired by a woman claiming to be a friend of the “overripe peach,” Cole sets out to find the woman. Crais arouses my curiosity in the opening paragraph by describing a “small, round, and dumpy” woman wearing a fringed leather jacket in a darkened room who was clearly afraid and reminded the observer of an overripe peach. Robert Crais knows how to capture my attention from the first page and hold it to the end and “The Promise” illustrates that perfectly. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite![]() ![]() It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. He is also the author of short story collections including Wormwood. His novels include Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Blood, and Lost Souls. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Brite is the author of numerous titles and short stories, specializing in horror, dark comedy, and all things thrilling. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. ![]() To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a "guidebook to hell." She is the only writer I know who could write a guidebook to Hell that would make me want to go there., Dennis Cooper Author of Frisk, Wrong, and Try Poppy Z. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Someday book david levithan![]() I managed to read the entire 400 pages in less than 3 days, which is something I don't get done much when I'm busy with schoolwork! So it felt really nice to fall into a story that captivated me so quickly. It's definitely been at least four or five years since I read EVERY DAY, but as soon as I picked up this book, I found myself absorbed in the story and I just couldn't put it down. What I loved about this book was how quickly I fell back into the story. And to make it worse, X, the evil body shifter that's been searching for A, is starting to harm their friends as a method of getting A to come back and face him. Through time and distance, they struggle to keep their friendship (and their pseudo-relationship) alive, even though it's getting harder and harder. This story picks up where EVERY DAY leaves off, after A has to leave and ends up in Colorado, far away from Rhiannon. ![]() And now, so many years later, I picked up SOMEDAY, and I fell back into A's world all over again. It was an idea that was revolutionary and definitely took me by surprise, which is why I loved it so much. ![]() I couldn't get over how exciting and different this story was - following someone that wakes up in a different body every single day. I absolutely fell in love with the first book in this series, EVERY DAY, a few years ago when I finally made the decision to pick it up. ![]() My review for this book was originally posted on. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Oliver twist novel![]() ![]() ![]() Champagne and wine are consumed at parties.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Olivia doses the maid at her uncle's home with laudanum, an opiate, so she'll not be aware when Olivia sneaks out at night. Olivia's first nurse takes swigs from a bottle throughout the day. A gun is fired and held to someone's head.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Olivia knees someone in the nose, cracking it. ![]() A murder is described in detail: "Knifing through cloth and flesh made a very distinct noise." Engaged fight scenes with bones cracking, blood spurting. Some graphic violence described intensely. Jack grabs Olivia until his "fingers burn into her flesh." He pushes her, he slams her into a wall, he knocks the wind out of her while dancing roughly with her, he tells her: "Shut your mouth!" He admits: "There was something about her that brought out a fierce side of him, something primitive that made him want to throttle her one minute and protect her the next." Jack thinks of Olivia threateningly: "He wanted to find her and make her hurt as much as he did." Olivia is attracted to the "barely restrained ferocity behind his ice blue eyes." It's mentioned that Olivia's mother was beaten by her father, enough that her mother ran away and died in childbirth, alone. Violence and sexual arousal are intertwined in a disturbing way. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Agamben state of exception summary![]() ![]() ![]() The state of exception is often enacted under the paradoxical pretence of suspending laws and rights to ensure their protection, so they may be reinstated once normality is restored. This suspension has many different names-the ’state of siege’ in France or ‘martial law’ in Canada-but they are all fundamentally the same thing, a state of exception. ![]() ![]() In instances of national crisis, such as natural disasters or war, governments suspend the law to maintain order. The state of exception allows for a unique interaction between sovereign nations and their laws. Agamben demonstrates that the state of exception has become the norm in contemporary political life. Finally, a critique of Agamben’s understanding of the relationship between the state of exception and totalitarianism will be discussed. We will explore Agamben’s claim that the state of exception is becoming the norm through his description of the camp as well as its use as a preventative measure. The work of Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin deepens our understanding of the connection between the sovereign and the state of exception. A brief description of what the state of exception is and why it is implemented will ground this essay. This essay will discuss his thinking regarding the ‘state of exception’. Giorgio Agamben is one of the 21 st century’s most influential philosophers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told from the first person narrative of Pasha Shahed, a seventeen year-old boy going through many of the universal trials and tribulations of growing up, all while living in a more and more turbulent Iran. Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji was the 2009-2010 selection.Ī majority of the book takes place quite literally on the rooftops of Tehran in the year 1973. Villanova has this great program called “One Book” that is described as “a campus-wide effort spanning the academic year that presents to the university a book worthy of close reading, discussion, course adoption, and the stimulation of dialog among all members of the campus community.” Every student at Villanova receives a copy of the selected book and different activities are planned throughout the year that revolve around it. ![]() I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but I went to Villanova University (go Wildcats!). ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Aanchal malhotra partition![]() ![]() ![]() Lush, sensuous, and deeply romantic, The Book of Everlasting Things is the story of two lovers and two nations, split apart by forces beyond their control, yet bound by love and memory. As their paths spiral away from each other, they must each decide how much of the past they are willing to let go, and what it will cost them. Severed from one another, Samir and Firdaus make a series of fateful decisions that will change the course of their lives forever. Suddenly, they find themselves on opposite sides: Samir, a Hindu, bes Indian and Firdaus, a Muslim, bes Pakistani, their love now forbidden. But as the struggle for Indian independence gathers force, their beloved city is ravaged by Partition. Over the years that follow, the perfumers apprentice and calligraphers apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his familys ittar shop in Lahore. ![]() About the Book A lush, sweeping debut novel in the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, about a Hindu perfumer and a Muslim calligrapher, who fall in love against the backdrop of Partition. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Sugar street by naguib mahfouz![]() ![]() Louis Post-Dispatch "Mahfouz presents us with a different concept of the world and makes it real. One of the most enjoyable books of recent memory." -St. ![]() Mahfouz has captured a family and its homeland at one gloriously varied moment in a cycle." - Newsday "Mahfouz's characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates with unresolved tension." - The Atlanta Constitution "A resonant tour de force, a superbly written novel. His genius is not just that he shows us Egyptian colonial society in all its complexity it is that he makes us look through the vision of his vivid characters and see people and ideas that no longer seem so alien." -Philadelphia Inquirer, "A masterful kaleidoscope of emotions, ideas, and perspective. ![]() ![]() "A masterful kaleidoscope of emotions, ideas, and perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, Charlotte Bront before Jane Eyre presents a stunning examination of a woman who battled against the odds to make her voice heard. ![]() She sought to cast an empathetic lens on characters often ignored by popular literature of the time, questioning societal assumptions with a sharp intellect and changing forever the landscape of western literature. Charlotte, like her sisters Emily and Anne, was passionate about her work. Originally published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, Jane Eyre was born out of a magnificent, vivid imagination, a deep cultivation of skill, and immense personal hardship and tragedy. ![]() Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong -I have as much soul as you, -and full as much heartĬharlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers of all ages and revered as a masterwork of literary prowess. ![]() |